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¹ And God said vnto Iacob, Arise, goe vp to Bethel, and dwel there: and make there an Altar vnto God, that appeared vnto thee, when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. ² Then Iacob said vnto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and bee cleane, and change your garments, ³ And let vs arise, and goe vp to Bethel, and I will make there an Altar vnto God, who answered me in the day of my distresse, and was with me in the way which I went. ⁴ And they gaue vnto Iacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their eare-rings which were in their eares, and Iacob hid them vnder the oke which was by Shechem. ⁵ And they iourneyed: and the terrour of God was vpon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sonnes of Iacob.

⁶ So Iacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (that is Bethel) hee and all the people that were with him. ⁷ And hee built there an Altar, and called the place El-Bethel, because there God appeared vnto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. ⁸ But Deborah Rebekahs nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel vnder an oke: and the name of it was called Allon Bachuth. ⁹ And God appeared vnto Iacob againe, when he came out of Padan Aram, and blessed him. ¹⁰ And God said vnto him, Thy name is Iacob: thy name shall not bee called any more Iacob, but Israel shall bee thy name; and hee called his name Israel. ¹¹ And God saide vnto him, I am God Almightie: be fruitfull and multiply: a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and Kings shall come out of thy loynes. ¹² And the land which I gaue Abraham, and Isaac, to thee I will giue it, and to thy seed after thee will I giue the land. ¹³ And God went vp from him, in the place where he talked with him. ¹⁴ And Iacob set vp a pillar in the place where he talked with him, euen a pillar of stone: and hee powred a drinke offering thereon, and he powred oile thereon. ¹⁵ And Iacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.

¹⁶ And they iourneyed from Bethel: and there was but a litle way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel traueiled, and she had hard labour. ¹⁷ And it came to passe when shee was in hard labour, that the midwife said vnto her, Feare not: thou shalt haue this sonne also. ¹⁸ And it came to passe as her soule was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Beniamin. ¹⁹ And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. ²⁰ And Iacob set a pillar vpon her graue: that is the pillar of Rachels graue vnto this day.

²¹ And Israel iourneyed and spread his tent beyond the towre of Edar. ²² And it came to passe when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went & lay with Bilhah his fathers concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sonnes of Iacob were twelue. ²³ The sonnes of Leah: Reuben Iacobs first borne, and Simeon, and Leui, and Iudah, and Issachar, and Zebulun. ²⁴ The sonnes of Rachel: Ioseph, and Beniamin. ²⁵ And the sonnes of Bilhah, Rachels handmaid: Dan and Naphtali. ²⁶ And the sonnes of Zilpah, Leahs handmaid: Gad, and Asher. These are the sonnes of Iacob, which were borne to him in Padan Aram. ²⁷ And Iacob came vnto Isaac his father vnto Mamre, vnto the citie of Arbah (which is Hebron) where Abraham and Isaac soiourned. ²⁸ And the dayes of Isaac were an hundred and fourescore yeeres. ²⁹ And Isaac gaue vp the ghost and died, and was gathered vnto his people, being old and full of dayes: and his sonnes Esau and Iacob buried him.